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Friday, September 30, 2016

This week's the last 40 Great Nail Art Ideas week. There will be another challenge, but I can't tell you yet when it will start. The last color scheme is earth tones, and my final personal pattern prompt is waterfall.

I started with three coats of Pahlish Bad Wolf, a light taupe with golden and pink flakie shimmer.

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

My brown polish is Kiko 374 (Pearly Chocolate Noir), a deep chocolate brown with a strong reddish shimmer. I used two coats for opacity.

On top of Pearly Chocolate Noir, I stamped using MoYou Stamping Polish in Skin Silk, a soft pink creme, and Moyra stamping plate 03 (Ornaments). One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top finished this mani.

Monday, September 26, 2016

Coldwraith has a dark royal blue jelly base filled with lots and lots of blue, teal and purple hex glitters, some of them holographic. I used three coats and added two coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top, as Coldwraith dried rather gritty (this could be because of the age, my bottle is quite ancient and this polish is no longer produced, but I've seen it's still available at some retailers).

My blue polish isn't all that "medium", but when I googled Mittelblau, I got some royal blue pictures, too, so I guess my royal blue one is OK. It's called Dark Depths by Emily de Molly, it has a royal blue jelly base and is filled with hex glitter that looks just plain blue in most of my pictures, but irl they shift from aqua over teal to blue (there's a hint of it to see in the bottle), so it's much more beautiful irl than my pictures show. I used three coats and finished with one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Monday, September 19, 2016

Am I not Yours has a medium grassy green jelly base filled with yellow, green, blue and teal hexes, some of them holographic, plus some teal squares. The base is very sheer, my pictures show three coats. If you want complete opacity with this one, I suggest to wear it over a green base. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top gave a smooth finish.

Happy Hands polishes retired, so other than blog sales, there's no way to get these anymore.

Friday, September 16, 2016

As you see in the post title, red, yellow and green are this week's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas Challenge colors. My personal pattern prompt is watercolors.

I started with a white base (two coats of P2 So Innocent), then thinned down my color polishes (red: Essence Juicy Love, yellow: Catrice Earnie And Birdie, green: Essence In The Jungle) with acetone and dabbed them on my nails. Then I dabbed a brush dipped in acetone over the lines where the colors meet to blur them even more. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top finished this mani.